Believing that some snakes spoke the Semitic language of the Canaanites, Egyptians included the magic spells in inscriptions on two sides of the sarcophagus in an effort to ward them off.

• 闪族语是5000多年前迦南人使用的一种非常古老的语言形式，后来被腓尼基人和希伯来人使用。